Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:8 in other translations
| BSB | A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin. |
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| WEB | The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. |
| ASV | The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall. |
| YLT | The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh. |
| DARBY | The wise in heart receiveth commandments; but a prating fool shall fall. |
| BBE | The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall. |
| Webster | The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. |
What does Proverbs 10:8 mean?
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Proverbs 10:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 10:8
- Matthew 7:24-25
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
- Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
- Proverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
- Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
- Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
- Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
- Proverbs 18:6-7
A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
- Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Context
- Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
- Proverbs 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 10:9
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Proverbs 10:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El sabio de corazón recibirá los mandamientos: mas el loco de labios caerá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Celui qui est sage de cœur reçoit les commandements, mais celui qui est insensé de lèvres tombe. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer weisen Herzens ist, nimmt Gebote an; aber ein närrischer Schwätzer kommt zu Fall. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sapiens corde præcepta suscipit; stultus cæditur labiis. |